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Rural Housing and Seabird Rescue

Demand for country homes goes through the roof, but at what cost to rural communities and pointing young Manx Shearwaters in the right direction

28 minutes

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Thu 17 Sep 2020 05:30

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Second Homes - estate agents in rural Wales report that since lockdown the demand for property has shot through the roof, but we hear how the growing rise of holiday lets and second homes is threatening the future of local communities and a call for new measures to tackle the issue

Welsh Wool -  calls for use of it to be prioritised in public buildings and government-backed insulation schemes following a "disastrous" fall in demand for the natural fibre

Saving the Reds - research from Queen's University in Belfast suggests that numbers of red squirrels are on the increase in areas where pine martens also live. We hear how that seems to be the case in mid Wales and it's hoped that a new release of four Pine Martens into the wild in Gwynedd recently will have a similar beneficial effect for the red squirrels there. 

Time to go home, but which way?!- the islands off the coast of Pembrokeshire are home to hundreds of thousands of Manx Shearwaters, who breed and burrow there in the summer months but now it's time to head south for winter. But it's easy for the young seabirds to get disorientated. We hear how the volunteers from the Manx Shearwater Rescue Service are giving them a helping hand. If you find a lost bird do contact them - numbers are on their website

and Huw and Molly are off for a slightly damp walk to Cwmorthin, near Blaenau Ffestiniog

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